GRE Word List
POTENTIAL
existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality
The meaning of the word potential is existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| incognito | with one's identity concealed |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |